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A Bush Christening
''A Bush Christening'' is a humorous poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. It was first published in '' The Bulletin'' magazine on 16 December 1893 (under its original title of "The Christening of Maginnis Magee"), the Christmas issue of that publication. It has been called "a rollicking account of how the traditional pre-occupations, whisky and religion, come together".The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd edition, p136 Plot summary ‘Mike was the dad of a ten-year-old lad’ (stanza 2, line 5) who has never been christened. Magee lives "On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few,"(stanza 1, line 1) and rarely sees a priest. By chance a priest passes by one day and his parents decide to christen the boy as soon as possible. The Magee (son) overhears the conversation, and, thinking that a "christening" is like branding of animals, decides to make a run for it. The priest and parents chase after him. They see that they have no chanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banjo Paterson
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, (17 February 18645 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author, widely considered one of the greatest writers of Australia's colonial period. Born in rural New South Wales, Paterson worked as a lawyer before transitioning into literature, where he quickly gained recognition for capturing the life of the Australian bush. A representative of the Bulletin School of Australian literature, Paterson wrote many of his best known poems for the nationalist journal '' The Bulletin'', including " Clancy of the Overflow" (1889) and " The Man from Snowy River" (1890). His 1895 ballad "Waltzing Matilda" is regarded widely as Australia's unofficial national anthem and, according to the National Film and Sound Archive, has been recorded more than any other Australian song. Early life Andrew Barton Paterson was born on 17 February 1864 at the property "Narrambla", near Orange, New South Wales, the eldest son of Andrew Bogle Paterson, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bulletin (Australian Periodical)
''The Bulletin'' was an Australian weekly magazine based in Sydney and first published in 1880. It featured politics, business, poetry, fiction and humour, alongside cartoons and other illustrations. ''The Bulletin'' exerted significant influence on Australian culture and politics, emerging as "Australia's most popular magazine" by the late 1880s. Jingoistic, xenophobic, anti-imperialist and Republicanism in Australia, republican, it promoted the idea of an Australian national identity distinct from its British colonial origins. Described as "the bushman's bible", ''The Bulletin'' helped cultivate a mythology surrounding the The bush#The Australian bush, Australian bush, with bush poets such as Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson contributing many of their best known works to the publication. After federation of Australia, federation in 1901, ''The Bulletin'' changed owners multiple times and gradually became more conservative in its views while remaining an "organ of Australianism" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behind The Scenes
Behind the Scenes may refer to: Books * ''Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House'', an 1868 autobiography by Elizabeth Keckley Film and TV * behind the scenes, making-of, in cinema, a behind-the-scenes documentary film about the production of the film or TV series * ''Behind the Scenes'', a 1904 film directed by Alf Collins * ''Behind the Scenes'' (1908 film), a 1908 film directed by D.W. Griffith * ''Behind the Scenes'' (1914 film), a silent film starring Mary Pickford * ''Behind the Scenes'' (American TV series), a 1992 American children's documentary miniseries * ''Behind the Scenes'' (Canadian TV series), a Canadian documentary series since 1997 * ''Behind the Scenes'', a documentary released by record artist Zendaya Music * Behind the Scenes (band), a German gothic rock band * '' Behind the Scene'', a 1983 album by Reba McEntire See also * Backstage (other) * ''Behind the Screen ''Behind the Screen'' is a 1916 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Geebung Polo Club
"The Geebung Polo Club" is a poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in '' The Antipodean'' in December 1893. It was also included in his first anthology of bush poetry ''The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses'' in October 1895. __TOC__ Style It is one of Paterson's best-known poems and combines several of the most frequently recurring characteristics of his poetry – humour, tragedy and horses; and was given as "finest example of the of exaggeration in the language". Paterson's love of polo formed the basis of the poem. The poem's unnamed narrator clearly admires the rough and ready "Geebung Polo Club", who are contrasted with their wealthy city opponents, "The Cuff and Collar Team". Equestrian illustrations with the poem were done by Frank P. Mahony. Historical origins In February 1939, Paterson gave an insight into the poem's origins. Able to proceed through the Australian banking crisis of 1893, an English cavalry officer started a polo club in Sydney. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford (from which the poet was expelled in 1811), designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford * Founding of Vangiya Sahitya Parishad in Bengal Works published in English Canada * William Wilfred Campbell, ''The Dread Voyage Poems''. Toronto: William Briggs.Campbell, William Wilfred " Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web, Mar. 20, 2011. * Bliss Carman, ''Low Tide at Grand Pré''Keith, W. J. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1893. Events *January 14 – Kate Chopin's short stories "Désirée's Baby" and "A Visit to Avoyelles" appear in ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'' magazine in the United States. *February/March – The 22-year-old Stephen Crane pays for publication of his first book, the Bowery novella ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'', under the pseudonym "Johnston Smith", in New York City. Later considered a pioneering example of American literary realism, its first trade edition (rewritten) comes out in 1896 in literature, 1896 after Crane has attained fame with ''The Red Badge of Courage''. *April 19 – Oscar Wilde's social comedy ''A Woman of No Importance'' receives its first performance at the Haymarket Theatre, London, with Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Mrs. Bernard Beere and Julia Neilson. *May 2 – Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, 44, begins a brief marriage with Austrian writer Frida Uhl, 21. *May 17 – Maurice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1893. Books * Carlton Dawe – ''The Emu's Head : A Chronicle of Dead Man's Flat'' * E. W. Hornung – ''Tiny Luttrell'' * Rosa Praed ** ''Christina Chard: A Novel'' ** ''Outlaw and Lawmaker'' Short stories * John Arthur Barry ** "Number One North Rainbow" ** "Sojur Jim" ** ''Steve Brown's Bunyip and Other Stories'' * Louis Becke ** "Challis, the Doubter: The White Lady and the Brown Woman" ** "The Fate of the Alida" * Ernest Favenc ** ''The Last of Six: Tales of the Austral Tropics'' ** "My Only Murder" * Henry Lawson ** "A Camp-Fire Yarn" ** "A Love Story" ** "The Man Who Forgot" ** " On the Edge of a Plain" ** " The Union Buries Its Dead" Poetry * Randolph Bedford – "The Days of '84" * E. J. Brady – "Laying on the Screw : The Other Side of the Wool-Trade" * Edward Dyson – " When the Bell Blew Up" * G. Herbert Gibson – ''Ironbark Chips and Stockwhip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Literature
Australian literature is the literature, written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Australia, Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early Western culture, Western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies; as such, its recognised literary tradition begins with and is linked to the broader tradition of English literature. However, the narrative art of Australian writers has, since 1788, introduced the character of a new continent into literature—exploring such themes as Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginality, ''mateship'', egalitarianism, democracy, national identity, migration, Australia's unique location and geography, the complexities of urban living, and "My Country, the beauty and the terror" of life in the Australian bush. Overview Australian writers who have obtained international renown include the Nobel Prize for Literature, Nobel-winning author Patrick White, as well as authors Christina Stead, Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Sussex
Lucy Sussex (born 1957 in New Zealand) is an author working in fantasy and science fiction, children's and teenage writing, non-fiction and true crime. She is also an editor, reviewer, academic and teacher, and currently resides in Melbourne, Australia. She is often associated with feminist science fiction, Australiana, the history of women's writing, and detective fiction. Personal life Lucy Sussex was born in 1957 in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has lived in New Zealand, France, the United Kingdom and Australia, where she settled in 1971, and has spent the majority of her time since. She has a degree in English and an MA in Librarianship from Monash University, and also a Ph.D. from the University of Wales. She has been writing since the age of eleven. In 1979 she attended a Sydney-based Science Fiction Writers' Workshop, conducted by Terry Carr and George Turner and soon after published her first short stories locally and overseas. Fiction Lucy Sussex's fiction has spanne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland Guardian
''The Portland Guardian'' was a weekly newspaper published between 1842 and 1964 in the seaport town of Portland, Victoria, Australia. It was known as the ''Portland Guardian and Normanby General Advertiser'' from 1842 to 1876. It was founded by Thomas Wilkinson and James Swords, and was the second newspaper to be launched in country Victoria. After Wilkinson was elected to the first Victorian Legislative Council, he sold his interest in the paper to Rev. Thomas Elliott Richardson (1814–1869), brother of the artist C. D. Richardson. He was editor and proprietor of ''The Guardian'' from 1854 (or earlier) to 1863, in which year William Cooper became proprietor. It was eventually absorbed by local rival ''Portland Observer'', with the final issue appearing on 26 March 1964.Kirkpatrick, R. 2010, The bold type: a history of Victoria’s country newspapers, 1840-2010, Victorian Country Press Association Ltd, Ascot Vale, p. 216 See also * List of newspapers in Australia This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
